Beam-clamp.



No. 709,8l6. Patented s t. 23, I902.

H. s. COLLINS.

BEAM CLAMP.

(Application filed Feb. 15, 1902.) V

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY S. COLLINS, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO COLLINS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, A COR- PORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

BEAM-QLAM P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,816, dated September 23, 1902.

Application iiled February 15, 1902. Serial No. 94,265. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY S. COLLINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of 5 Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Beam-Clamps, of which improvement the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which- I Figure 1 indicates an elevation of my improved adjustable beam-clamp, dotted lines showing beam; Fig. 2, a plan View of same,

and Fig. 3 a section taken on the line at of a horizontal member a and a hooked portion.

(9,, conforming substantially with the web of the beam as and adapted to be suspended or supported thereon. The said horizontal members of said sections are movably secured in the separable thimble 2 and are provided with beam.

longitudinally-disposed slots 0, in which the transversely-disposed bolt 01 projects, the said 3 5 thimble being also provided with an orifice 6, through which and said slots the said bolt 11 projects,whereby when the nutfon one end of' said bolt is tightened said horizontal members are held together stationary, and when said 40 nut'is loosened the said members are free to be moved and adjusted to varying widths of The said thimble 2 is provided with a bracket 3, dependent from the lower side thereof and preferably integral therewith, the lower side of which is circular in configuration and provided with an orifice g, in which the suspending-bolteis adapted to be secured. I claimas myinventionand desire to secure by Letters Patent An adjustable beam-clamp comprising two similar horizontally-disposed members having hooked portions and provided with longitudinally-disposed slots, a separable thimble in. which said horizontal members are mov- 'ably'secured, and a screw-bolt projecting through said thimble and the slots of said horizontal members, whereby said members may be held stationary.

. In testimony whereof I have hereunto 6o signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY S. COLLINS. In presenceof- CLARENCE A. WILLIAMS,

J OHN 1-I. RoNEY. 

